Neotia also informed that the team will play four friendly matches in Spain and will also have a month-long pre season training beginning next week in Spain at the Los Angeles de San Rafael training ground in El Espinar, Segovia, the same facility used by the Spanish giants Atletico Madrid.

“The Indian players will leave on August 25 and they will be joined by International recruits including marquee player Luis Garcia in the first week of September,” he said.

“We will give them world class facility and physical training in La Liga methodology. The stress is to build a better team,” head coach Antonio Lopez Habas and physical coach Miguel Martinez told reporters.